A Schoolteacher's Last Note: 'God Knows I Am Not the Cause of This'

Leaving behind a pathetic note, on which she had hastily scrawled, "God knows that I am not the cause of this. It is not my fault," Miss Rosa Baumberger, aged 24, whose people live at Lind, Iowa, and recently employed as a school teacher at Metaline, ended her life in a room in the Langham Hotel, occupied by J. B. Farley, an employee of the Spokane Drug Co., at noon Monday, by sending a bullet from a 38-calibre revolver through her brain. She lived an hour.

Despondency through being out of employment and an unfortunate ending of a love affair are given as the causes. She came to Spokane Wednesday from Metaline, Wash., registered at the Brown Hotel, Second avenue and Post street, and has been extremely nervous for two days, pacing the floor of the office all day Sunday, waiting for a telephone call. She is thought to have a sister at 407 Seventh street, Portland, Ore. Monday morning she went to the Langham Hotel, across the street, to Farley's room, presumably to wait for his return at noon.

Farley was brought to the police station after the affair and was so excited that he could not make a clear statement for some time. After regaining his composure he said he had known the dead girl at Metaline last August. "She was pure and good, so do not cast any stain on her character," was the plea of Farley.

Coroner H. E. Schegel took charge of the body, which is held at the Smith undertaking rooms awaiting word from relatives.